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05-02-2008, 01:08 AM | #1 |
COBRA SITH LORD
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Last week I had a nice talk with a scalper who came up to me to ask questions about the Joe line. I've seen this man grab 50 Star Wars figs. of the pegs and even out of my sons hand once. So to my surprise he comes up to me and at first says he saw the Target exclusives and wanted to pick them up fo me. We had a long talk before(fig snatching from my boy)and I told him before I wouldn't pay anything but retail for my stuff. Then he starts with the questions about the 25th line, I knew where he was going with this so I tell him the Joe line is diffrent from the Star Wars lines, wrestling lines and hot wheels which is what this jerkoff sells.The Joe line is more about characters and if you try and get into it all he's going to end up with is a bunch of peg warmers becuase all the real collectors will get the good stuff so don't even try getting into this line. this guy walks away a little pissed off and little did I know a manager from TRU was listening in and tells me this guy has given them problems in the past and that it's made them change the times they put out figures.This guy thought I was a scalper too, because I'm in the store so much(I'm out of work with a back injury)long story short I now have truck days and a times when they will put Joes out. So maybe I can put a dent in these aholes profits.
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05-02-2008, 01:13 AM | #2 |
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Score one for the "Good Guys"!!! Way to Go!
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05-02-2008, 01:25 AM | #3 |
Plastic Junkie
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Yeah stick it to 'em. Down with the scalpers!
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05-02-2008, 01:54 AM | #4 |
COBRA SITH LORD
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Oh, I almost forgot, I saw the jerkoff today at Target, he gave me a nod, I gave him a nod and waved the new clone figures I just found on the pegs at him and I told don.t even bother checking the pegs, I already cleaned them out.
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05-02-2008, 01:58 AM | #5 |
VALKYRIE
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You win man, bravo! Thats messed up that he's grabbed toys out of your son's hands. You are right too, he shouldn't bother with this line because he will end up with peg warmers. Even the wave 2 cobra trooper, and wave 4 cobra air trooper, are flooding some pegs(those used to be hard to find).
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05-02-2008, 01:58 AM | #6 |
Mountaineering/HaloJumper
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Last week I had a nice talk with a scalper who came up to me to ask questions about the Joe line. I've seen this man grab 50 Star Wars figs. of the pegs and even out of my sons hand once. So to my surprise he comes up to me and at first says he saw the Target exclusives and wanted to pick them up fo me. We had a long talk before(fig snatching from my boy)and I told him before I wouldn't pay anything but retail for my stuff. Then he starts with the questions about the 25th line, I knew where he was going with this so I tell him the Joe line is diffrent from the Star Wars lines, wrestling lines and hot wheels which is what this jerkoff sells.The Joe line is more about characters and if you try and get into it all he's going to end up with is a bunch of peg warmers becuase all the real collectors will get the good stuff so don't even try getting into this line. this guy walks away a little pissed off and little did I know a manager from TRU was listening in and tells me this guy has given them problems in the past and that it's made them change the times they put out figures.This guy thought I was a scalper too, because I'm in the store so much(I'm out of work with a back injury)long story short I now have truck days and a times when they will put Joes out. So maybe I can put a dent in these aholes profits.
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05-02-2008, 02:05 AM | #7 |
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Way to stick it to the Man!!! You go dude!
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05-02-2008, 02:07 AM | #8 |
COBRA SITH LORD
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The worse part about him snagging the figure out of my boys hands it was Christmas time and his Birthday was that weekend and I had told my boy he could get anything he wanted in the store.My boy told me all he wanted was a couple of Starwars figures because he knew my workers comp. checks hadn't kicked in and he didn't want me to spend that much money. He knew when I would get some money I would make it up to him.BY the way he's only 9.
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05-02-2008, 02:09 AM | #9 |
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Go joe.....
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05-02-2008, 02:11 AM | #10 |
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What did you do when he took the figures out of your sons hands? I hope you got them back...
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